- Discover 2021 - where has generate plans gone?
Occurrence I have installed Discover 2021, and the option to Generate Plans in the Drillholes>Generate Sections tool is gone Solution You should have 2 new menu options in Discover 2021 next to Generate Section, Generate Plans and Batch Generate Sections. If these menu options are missing ...
- How do I display voxel / block models on my cross-sections?
Discover3D can not only display mining package block models and create voxel models, it also has the ability to export voxel models as vector slices along multiple cross-sections. These vector slices are automatically associated with the cross-sections (i.e. automatically recognised and handle ...
- How do I refresh my drillhole data and regenerate a section?
Occurrence Existing drillhole cross-sections and plans may need to be updated after updates and additions to a drillhole projects collar, survey and/or downhole data tables. Examples of changes to these files that may warrant section regeneration include: - new drillholes are added to a p ...
- I have lost my list of Drillhole Projects or sessions. How can I recover them?
Occurrence If you computer has changed you may have lost your program settings for Discover and other programs stored in - C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ This means your list of known drillhole project will be lost. Solution You can import any drillhole project from its folder to add it ...
- Drillhole Pierce Points - a powerful way to analyze and enhance your long-sections
The Create Pierce Point Layer tool is found within the Section Manager - This converts downhole intervals into attributed MapInfo Professional Point symbols. This significantly enhances the display and analytical options for this data on long- and cross-sections, such as: A range of label ...
- What data formats and file types can I import?
Discover and MapInfo Professional can import an extensive range of industry standard and 3rd party data formats. The attached PDF (bottom of the page) list all supported formats under the following categories, and for each format details the location of the required import tool. Tabular and ...
- Can I add custom polygon fill patterns to those available in MapInfo Pro?
You cannot add or edit the existing fill patterns listed in MapInfo Professional polygon styles. There is a third party tool that does this - https://fillpattern.com/# You can create a series of objects that will imitate a fill pattern using Discover>Map Making>Apply See Thru Shading or M ...
- I cannot edit my Drillhole tables
Occurrence In Discover 2016 or later, when I open my drillhole project and go to edit the data in a browser, I cannot edit it. Solution As MapInfo and TAB files are 2D only, Discover needs to import and convert these into a suitable 3D database format in the background when opening/creating ...
- How to display high-grade intercepts on drillhole sections, and create informative labels for them.
Occurrence Are you trying create and effectively display high-grade intercepts on your cross-sections and long-sections? Here are some pro-tips. Solution 1/. Ensure you have composited your downhole assay table with the appropriate method / parameters (using Drillholes>Downhole Composit ...
- How do I highlight different drillhole types on a section, such as Planned holes, or RAB vs RC vs DDH?
Solution A couple of tips that may assist you with the current version of Discover (v2013). 1/. To highlight 'Planned' holes. In addition to adding the planned hole/s' collar (and survey entries if needed) information, add a single lithology entry for each planned hole to the lithology table, ...
- How do I create grade/metal thickness contours in drillhole long/cross-sections or plans?
It’s a simple three step process to produce your grade-thickness contours: · Calculate the grade-thickness values · Grid these in either the long or cross section or a collar plan · Contour this grid The procedure is outlined in the following steps. It requires your ...
- Drillhole validation issues and how to resolve them
Discover's new drillhole project Validation Tool (in version 2011) is a powerful and comprehensive error-checking facility, essential for problem-free section/plan generation and annotation. This tool will consecutively check the project's collar, survey and downhole data tables as assigned du ...
- How do I calculate the minimum/maximum/average downhole value for each drillhole?
Select Analysis>Data Statistics. In this dialog, select the Downhole table, the fields to calculate (hold Ctrl key + left click to select multiple), and set the Grouping field as the HoleID. Tick and un-tick any properties to you wish to include and then click OK.
- Printing Drillhole Logs displays at correct scale
Occurrence In the Discover Log (strip) display tool, a depth to mm/cm scale can be specified. Also in the Display Downhole data tool, linegraphs can be specified a units to mm/cm. How do I print these to preserve the correct mm/cm scale? Solution For Log (strip) display, then you should print th ...
- How do I determine the midpoint XYZ coordinates for each of my downhole intervals?
You can use DRILLHOLES>3D Coordinates to show the XYZ for midpoints, along with end points or start points. They can also be viewed in 3D, using Discover3D>3D Coordinates
- Encom fonts files are missing or black square symbols are appearing
Occurrence After upgrading/installing Discover, the symbols such as Collar and EOH symbols on sections and certain map symbols are displaying as black Squares. Solution After installing/upgrading Encom Discover, you will need to restart Windows to complete the update of the Encom ET font files.
- Querying the EOH (end-of-hole) geology for each drillhole in a project
The following example uses a a downhole geology/lithology table called Lithology, with a target field called GeolCode. After opening the Drillhole Project, Run the Drillholes>Analyse>Max/EOH tool, and populate as follows: Two options exist for analysing EOH data; either Use deepest sampl ...